Death Benefit (2011)
Death Benefit
“ONE CENTRAL PARK WEST NEW YORK CITY MARCH 4, 2011, 8:05 A.M.
When his home office phone rang just after eight in the morning, a very anxious Jerry Trotter snapped it up. He’d been hoping it would ring, and he was hoping it would be Harry Hooper.
“I just had breakfast with that Morgan guy I was telling you about last night,” Hooper said, launching right in after Trotter picked up.
“You met with the guy? Sat down in front of him and ate breakfast?” Trotter was surprised. Brubaker and Hooper were usually more indirect, avoiding face-to-face meetings.
“He wouldn’t say anything more over the phone. He wanted a meeting, insisted on it. At six-thirty in the morning. He thinks I’m a headhunter for real, and he wants a new job, like yesterday. I couldn’t see the harm in it. It’s not like I’m going to see the guy again.”
“But what do you know about being a headhunter?”
“What’s to know? I just asked the guy to tell me about himself, about his strengths, where he sees himself in five years, all that BS.
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